Update!

Well, Star Shooter is moving forward!  I’ll bullet the happenings:

• Feb 18. met with Jessica, Global Awareness Project.  Incredible brain-load of a meeting!  Thank you, Jessica, for giving us loads of resources, ideas and contacts that will benefit Star Shooter!  I have emailed several people in our local area to see how Star Shooter can collaborate.  Hopefully, next meeting with Jessica will be to search out grant opportunities!  (and to see GAP’s documentary on Ecuador!)  
• Jessica also connected us to an event in Myrtle Beach this saturday Feb 28th, 12-4pm to hand out information about Star Shooter with other artists at the Oyster Fest at Broadway at the Beach.
• Feb 19. met with another Jessica at Teach My People, an after-school program for  at-risk kids.  TMP opened their doors with a warm welcome and Tuesday will be an ‘observation’ day to see how the program runs and gain rapport with the kids.  We hope to start our first workshop there within this week or next –starting with two children.  
• Thank you, Crystal, for attending these meetings and being available this week to return to TMP.
• Well, as u and almost half the world knows… Star Shooter’s first fundraiser has begun!  O Lord, we are praying for YOUR provision in this vision!  :)  I hope to raise $4,500 in this three-month photo contest that you can read details and submit your photo here: starshootercontest.org.  To this date, we have had four photo submissions (and three extra donors!) and a handful of people saying they “will.”  I have networked and marketed out the wazoo in this virtual world -with email, craigslist, facebook, university’s photo departments, local photo studios, online photo clubs and twice on ebay (until i got thrown out. oops).  Also, 4×9 printed flyers have arrived in the mail… so i will place at photo labs, coffee shops, etc.  I’ll also travel to FL and PA in March, Charleston and maybe Wilmington to place the flyers!  Oh and a friend of mine in KC will distribute as well… and a guy that saw the ad on craigslist will distribute in photo labs/schools in Los Angeles!  That’s cool.  
• I’ve had a few of photographers (in different states) inquire about Star Shooter wanting to lend a hand in some way.  I’m not sure how to involve them at this point, but am making a list.
• I’ve also been thinking ‘big.’  It is my true heart’s desire to take Star Shooter to the nations.  My ultimate workshop-spot would be in the Gaza strip.  I know, my legs may get blown off in the process… but I believe those children to be the most hurting on the earth right now.  I have two connections in there.  One replied to my request with: pray and if God gives a strategy, they’d support me!  Lots of red-tape though.  Another country: I have an opportunity to go to S. Africa late August this year.  Prayer and funds will determine.
• Thanks again for everyone’s support!  I am practicing what God has been teaching me personally:  Rest.  Star Shooter will only be conducted out of Rest in Him and through His supernatural powers.